Want farmland or garden space in the city? Look up."It's important to reconnect with that long tradition and realize that you don't need to reinvent the wheel. You just need to try to improve upon it," Novak says. "There's a big community of expert rooftop gardeners out there, with lots of experience and wisdom to share."

Call for Presentations "Expanding The Capacity For Native Business" 5/17-19, Great Falls, MontanaThe Indian Business Conference, themed "Expanding the Capacity for Native Business," will bring hundreds of
tribal, local, and state government and program representatives, practitioners, policy-makers, lenders, educators,
nonprofit organization representatives, funders, and entrepreneurs together to hear from experts and to
strategize about how to deversify, and thus strengthen, our tribal economies by supporting and creating
environments to nurture Native business development and entrepreneuership.

Missoula school trustees OK fiber network construction"The reason we went through this onerous process was because the Missoula fiber network is not an entity. It's not real. It doesn't exist right now," she said. "It would be a great idea if it did. But we had to meet our needs ... with a sunsetting contract at the end of the school year. We could not wait on some sort of idea out in the future."

Astronomy & Aerospace Day, 4/17, Bozeman, MontanaA free afternoon of astronomy- and aerospace-related events for kids and adults will be held in Bozeman on Sunday, April 17, including talks by a University of Montana astronomer and a Montana State University alumnus who now works as a systems engineer for Google[x].

Scientists: This bacteria can eat plastic trash Japanese scientists say they've discovered the first known bacteria able to break the molecular bonds of polyethylene terephthalate, or PET, one of the world's most common forms of plastic.